Harvesting the Heart (2010)
Harvesting the Heart
“His office was thirty miles outside Chicago, in the heartland of the country. The building was little more than a brown weathered shack attached to a chicken farm. The stench of droppings was overpowering, and there were feathers stuck to the wheels of my car when I got out. “Are you sure?” I asked Jake. “You know this guy?”
Eddie Savoy burst out of the door at that point, knocking it off its hinges. “Flan-man!” he yelled, wrapping Jake in a bear hug. They broke away and did some funny handshak...e that looked like two birds mating.
Jake introduced me to Eddie Savoy. “Paige,” he said, “me and Eddie were in the war together.”
“The war,” I repeated.
“The Gulf War,” Eddie said proudly. His voice was as rough as a grindstone.
I turned to Jake. The Gulf War? He had been in the army? The sun slanted off his cheekbones and lightened his eyes so that they appeared transparent. I wondered how much more about Jake Flanagan I had missed.
When I told Jake about leaving Nicholas and Max, and then about wanting to find my mother, I’d expected him to be surprised —maybe even angry, since I’d been telling him all those years that my mother had died.MoreLess
Eddie Savoy burst out of the door at that point, knocking it off its hinges. “Flan-man!” he yelled, wrapping Jake in a bear hug. They broke away and did some funny handshak...e that looked like two birds mating.
Jake introduced me to Eddie Savoy. “Paige,” he said, “me and Eddie were in the war together.”
“The war,” I repeated.
“The Gulf War,” Eddie said proudly. His voice was as rough as a grindstone.
I turned to Jake. The Gulf War? He had been in the army? The sun slanted off his cheekbones and lightened his eyes so that they appeared transparent. I wondered how much more about Jake Flanagan I had missed.
When I told Jake about leaving Nicholas and Max, and then about wanting to find my mother, I’d expected him to be surprised —maybe even angry, since I’d been telling him all those years that my mother had died.MoreLess
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